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25 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Devin Echo McClure

Jen came with me to pick up Devin (age 5) from pre-school and he was soo excited as he ran into Jen’s arms and announced to his teacher: “My mom brought Jen, This is my real mom, Kamala, and this is Jen. Jen is my…I don’t know what she is, but I love her!

Devin and I were painting the sidewalk in front of our house. He drew a snake and I wrote “HAPPY NEW YEAR,” when finished he says..Mom, why don’t you write SAD NEW YEAR too?

Devin will be 4 years old, tomorrow! I asked the obligatory question of what he wanted to do when he grows up, to which he says, “Someday, we will sit by the fire together and sip tea.”

Devin: “Mom I can’t breathe when there’s no air.”
Mom: “Me neither, honey.”
Devin: “That makes us special.”
Mom: “Actually, nobody in the world can breathe if there’s no air.”
Devin: “Then everybody in the world is special.”
Mom: “Yes, dear. That’s right.”

When asked what he wanted to be when he grows up, Devin (age 5) says: “Everything, like my dad.”

During our bedtime ritual, I told Devin (3) that we are all God, we just forget sometimes and Devin asked “why?” I said, “I don’t know.” Then he thought about it and said, “I’m not a god because I don’t have wings.”

Riding home from the beach my son Devin (3) kept turning back and looking at the sky…”Mom, Why’s the moon chasing my tricycle?”

I spent the day with Devin (3) hanging out at a nursery, playing with tractors and eating ice cream. Devin said, “I miss my dad. But you can pretend to be him. I can call you papa Kamala.”

I took Devin (3) to the polling booth and he says: “Mamma, I’ll sit here on these chairs and eat raisins while you save the sky from falling.”

Devin (4): “Jesus Christ is just like Bob the Builder because they both make cabinets.”

Devin (4): “Ouch. Mom, Next time I feed you something can you wait until I pull my fingers out of your mouth before you bite down?”

On the way to pre-school, Devin stuck his head out the window and says: “I’m so glad there is stuff on this planet. It would be so boring if there was nothing here to play with.”

Devin (4) got fruit from his Trick-or-Treat bag and says: “Sometimes red apples have yellow in them, and it makes them look like an explosion!”

Devin: “Mom, next month is my birthday and I want you to bake me a cake. This time I want you to make the outside brown so it looks like the earth and we can put animals on it like worms and snails and other bugs.”
Me: “Where did you get that idea?”
Devin: “I thought it up myself. It’s a great idea, I’ve been thinking about it for a whole year, since my last birthday.”

Devin drew a picture of a cake for Jen’s birthday and asked her, “How old are you?” When she tells him he says “:Woah. That’s too many candles, I’m going to draw five instead.” And then when he’s finished he says: “Here Jen, It’s gluten free!”

I put grapes in his lunch and he says, “Did you know grape rhymes with crepe and tape?”

Me: “Hey Devin, if I lift you up, you can pick that plum.”
Devin: “It’s kinda hard. It doesn’t look ripe.”
Me: “It’s a cherry plum, it’s supposed to be small.”
Devin takes a big bite and with squinty eyes says: “Mom, I love you–even if you give me sour plums.”

After getting stung by a bee, Devin (5) says: “I don’t want to be a marine biologist anymore.”
Michael: “Why Not?”
Devin: “I want to be a Zoologist because they study up on EVERYTHING, even animals that are not in the Zoo.”

Michael is teaching Devin about Volcanoes: “…and did you know that Mount Krakatoa made the loudest explosion in history. It made a sound so loud that it went around the earth, and everyone heard it.”
Devin (5) : “I didn’t hear it.”
Michael: “You were not born yet.”
Devin: “So the dead people and the unborn people didn’t hear it, and neither did the deaf people because they can’t hear anything.”

Tucking Devin (5) in to bed last night I say: “Sweet Dreams, Darlin’.”
Devin: “I have a whole box of dreams some of them are good, but some of them are nightmares. Don’t worry, whichever one I pick, I’m going to be OK.”
Mom: Speechless kiss on the forehead.

Devin’s grandmother picks him up from school and says: “Someday, when you get bigger you can drive me around!”
To which Devin (5) says: “And when you get smaller, you can ride around in my car seat.”

Devin (5) says: “I used to think trees were animals, but now I know they are living beings.”

Devin woke me up by throwing a pillowcase in my face and said, “Mom, I took all the wrappers off your pillows when you were asleep.”